APPLE ANNOUNCES NEW NATIVE POWERPC DEVELOPERS' TOOLS
(February 3rd 1995) Apple says Release 16 of its MPW Pro and E.T.O.
Essentials*Tools*Objects have begun shipping to developers.
One of the most notable additions for cross-platform gurus is an
alpha release of IBM's System Object Model (SOM) runtime software.
This will be important for anyone with an eye on developing OpenDOC
or Taligent frameworks. The new release also includes:
* The first beta release of MrC and MrCpp, new C and C++ compilers
for developing native Power Macintosh applications. The company
claims the compilers run up to four times faster than Apple's first
C/C++ compiler for Power Macintosh
* An alpha release of the PPCLink, the MPW-based linker for native
Power Macintosh applications. In addition to being faster than the
previous, emulated version, it can now generate executable
applications directly
* Version 1.1 (final) of PPCAsm, the PowerPC assembler
* A beta release of MPW p2c, an Object Pascal to C/C++ source code
translation system
* Version 3.1.2 (final) of MacApp
* An early, pre-release of MacApp 3.5 which adds support for
AppleScript, PowerTalk mailers, and Macintosh Drag and Drop
* Version 2.0.1 (final) of Ad Lib, a powerful user-interface editing
tool for building views for the MacApp 3.x application framework. Ad
Lib replaces MacApps old ViewEdit application
* An alpha release of the Code Fragment Manager (CFM) runtime
software for 680x0-based Macintosh systems. CFM-68K supports the
development of shared libraries and drop-in code modules for
680x0-based applications using programming techniques similar to
those used today for the development of native Power Macintosh
applications.
MPW Pro costs $495 in the US, on CD-ROM, with upgrades from older
MPW-based products costing $295. E.T.O. costs $1,095 and comes as a
three-issue-per-year CD-ROM-based subscription. Both MPW Pro and
E.T.O. are available immediately through APDA.
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